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By IGN Staff

Planescape: Torment Now Available Black Isle Studios, the RPG division of Interplay Productions, has finished the first AD&D game based on the Planescape setting that uses the real-time game system powered by the BioWare Infinity Engine. Last used in Baldur's Gate, the engine allows floating text, a pop-up quick key system, a bigger gameplay area, and over 80 spells. Click here to read more about Planescape: Torment

Blockbuster Video Rents PC Games As if in answer to all our prayers, you can now rent Silver from Blockbuster for a period of five days. The cost of renting the game works out to be about 7 cents per minute. This new feature is ideal for those who would like to rent Wild Wild West the movie along with the game to get full entertainment immersion...although personally we found the movie to be shallow and derivative. Vincent prefers to call is dallow and sherivative but he's had almost two pounds of burritos today and we think it's affecting his reason.

Microsoft Flight Sim 2000 Contest Microsoft announcedd a contest in conjunction with the launch of Flight Sim 2000 today, where enthusiasts can win one of 20 copies of Jeppesen's SIMcharts, the software that allows flight sim useres to sort, view, and print realistic Jeppesen terminal charts. Click here to enter the contest